Consulting

Designed and supported BGP-based connectivity at every level — from enterprise edge routing to carrier backbone architecture, working directly with ISPs, data centers, and global enterprise customers on path diversity, peering strategy, and traffic engineering. Backed by graduate-level networking coursework and hands-on CLI work across Cisco, Juniper, and open-source routing platforms.

What I can do for you: BGP design and review, edge routing architecture, peering and transit strategy, routing policy audits, and technical discovery for organizations evaluating their connectivity options or cleaning up someone else's design.

Designed and deployed SD-WAN architectures including rapid-deployment overlays, hybrid MPLS migrations, and multi-site DIA integration across carrier and enterprise environments. Continued designing WAN solutions through multiple roles and active certification work.

What I can do for you: SD-WAN design and vendor evaluation, MPLS migration planning, multi-site WAN architecture, hybrid connectivity design, and hands-on involvement through delivery.

Led technical discovery sessions with enterprise and carrier customers on DDoS requirements, scrubbing center design, black-hole routing, and traffic path diversity. Understand the full range of options from null-routing and ACLs to upstream scrubbing and BGP community-based mitigation, and how to match the right approach to the actual risk tolerance and budget of the organization.

What I can do for you: DDoS architecture review, mitigation strategy, scrubbing center evaluation, traffic engineering for resiliency, and practical advice on what level of protection actually makes sense for your environment.

Designed wireless systems from the ground up across hospitality, enterprise, venues, campgrounds, and multi-tenant buildings. RF surveys, heatmapping, channel planning, outdoor AP deployment, and LTE/wireless backhaul design going back to early carrier work where creative solutions included dual-LTE Yagi antenna architectures for remote environments with no wired options.

What I can do for you: Wireless system design, RF surveys and heatmapping, outdoor and venue coverage, LTE/wireless backhaul planning, and troubleshooting existing deployments with poor coverage or interference.

Designed and delivered full-property network solutions for major hotel brands including managed Wi-Fi, SIP/PRI voice, security cameras, guest authentication, cabling, and redundant connectivity. Extended that work to venues, campgrounds, trailer parks, and multi-tenant buildings. Understand brand compliance requirements, property management system integration, and the constraints of working inside an operating property without disrupting guests or operations.

What I can do for you: Full property network design, technology audits, managed service scoping, vendor coordination, and architecture that accounts for how the property actually operates.

Started working on cloud connectivity designing AWS Direct Connect and Azure ExpressRoute solutions for enterprise customers, and pushed deeper through active AWS certification work and hands-on project delivery. Have worked with organizations on cloud migration strategy, hybrid WAN design, and multi-cloud environments including legacy workloads that need to coexist with modern infrastructure. Understand the difference between a migration done right and one that just moves the problem somewhere more expensive.

What I can do for you: Cloud migration planning and architecture review, hybrid connectivity design, multi-cloud strategy, cloud cost optimization assessment, and technical advisory for organizations evaluating or recovering from a cloud migration.

Designed and supported low-latency connectivity solutions for financial and gaming clients throughout my career — from last-mile selection and route optimization to redundancy planning at the transport and application layer. Know how to design a network around a budget and a risk tolerance: maybe everything fails except the front desk, or the register keeps working but streaming goes dark, or you black-hole traffic to protect the core while one path recovers. Practical resilience, not just theoretical.

What I can do for you: Low-latency connectivity design, redundancy planning, failover architecture, last-mile evaluation, and helping organizations define what "always on" actually needs to mean for their specific situation.

Supported voice infrastructure across every role — SIP trunking, PRI, hosted voice, and UCaaS platform integration. Designed SIP/PRI systems for hospitality properties and supported voice connectivity and architecture throughout carrier and enterprise work. Deeply familiar with the network requirements that make voice work reliably even if the underlying platform changes.

What I can do for you: Voice connectivity design, SIP/PRI scoping, network readiness assessment for UCaaS migrations, and troubleshooting voice quality issues at the network layer.

Incorporated security into network design throughout my career — firewall placement, VLAN segmentation, guest network isolation, managed firewall recommendations, and security camera network design. Graduate-level security training applied to practical recommendations for regulated industries. Understand how to layer security without destroying performance or making the network unmanageable.

What I can do for you: Security architecture review, segmentation design, firewall placement and policy recommendations, and practical security improvements that don't require a full rip-and-replace.

Trained and coached sales teams across multiple organizations covering technical fundamentals, qualifying the right opportunities, understanding customer environments, and translating complex architecture into language that closes deals. Built playbooks, ran workshops, and joined customer calls to validate designs and raise team close rates across fiber, wireless, carrier, enterprise, and cloud products.

What I can do for you: Sales team technical training, pre-sales process design, qualification framework development, joint customer calls, and helping your sales organization win the deals that require someone who actually understands the network.

Started hands-on with computers and networks in the mid-1990s through a computer repair program — building, troubleshooting, and understanding systems before managed services abstracted most of it away. That foundation carried through every role since. On the network hardware side: rack design, cabling, switch configuration, router deployment, firewall installation, and physical infrastructure documentation across carrier, enterprise, hospitality, and data center environments. On the systems side: Windows Server, Linux (since 2008), virtualization, and the management plane that keeps infrastructure observable — monitoring, patching, logging, and the tooling that tells you something is wrong before the customer calls.

What I can do for you: Hardware selection and scoping, rack and infrastructure design, network equipment configuration and deployment, systems management architecture, and the practical hands-on work that makes a design actually land in the real world.